Death to Freedom, look Homeward America, they just stepped on our grave

Group Photo of Drunken Dept. Store "Santas"?

One just starts to get the opinion that maybe freedoms and individual rights are getting expanded in Great White socialist-royalist-francophone-commonwealth to the north and then all stupidity in Government anf their Courts (just like ours) breaks out its cage again. m/r

Death to Freedom :: SteynOnline
National Review's Happy Warrior
March 26, 2013 by Mark Steyn

For half a decade, ever since the Canadian Islamic Congress attempted to criminalize my writing, I've found myself waging a grim campaign for freedom of speech in my native land. We've had some success along the way, seeing off the Islamic enforcers, and getting a disgraceful federal law first rendered unenforceable and then repealed by the House of Commons. My comrade Ezra Levant and I are excitable chaps: As I like to put it, we went Magna Carta on the Canadian censors' medieval ass. My publisher, Ken Whyte, is rather more house-trained, and used to say that the end game was getting the issue to the supreme court in Ottawa and having it ruled unconstitutional. He seemed confident we had the votes.

No, we don't. Last month, the Canadian supreme court, at a stroke, undid all the good work of the last five years, reaffirmed the state's role in the thought-crime business, rejected truth as a defense, and took a narrow, generation-old ruling on "hate speech" and carelessly broadened it. And they did it unanimously. Nearly four centuries after John Milton declared, "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties," on the highest court in one of the oldest democratic jurisdictions on earth there is not a single vote for the rough-and-tumble of unfettered speech necessary to any free society.

The case in question was a minor one. Way back at the turn of the century, Bill Whatcott was convicted by the Saskatchewan "Human Rights" Tribunal for distributing a couple of unread flyers around Regina and Saskatoon with titles like "Sodomites in Our Public Schools." Ooh, yes, he said "sodomite"! In a free society, there's always the danger someone will utter the word "sodomite." As perilous as that is, erecting a permanent bureaucracy of aggressive apparatchiks to force us into state-mandated niceness is a thousand times more perilous. Not to mention just plain creepy.

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